Magazinet

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Magazinet is a conservative Protestant Norwegian newspaper which is published three times a week. Its average circulation as of 2004 is 5,307 copies. As of 2006 the editor of the newspaper is Vebjørn Selbekk. The ideological goal of the newspaper is "to influence society from an Revival Christian point of view".

It became known to a wider audience in January 2006, when it was one of the first newspapers to reprint Jyllands-Posten's Muhammad cartoons which, according to the editor, was made in the name of freedom of speech. The printing of these drawings resulted in attacks on Norwegian installations in some parts of the Muslim world. On February 14th 2006 the Muslim organization Al-Jinnah Foundation pressed charges against Selbekk for blasphemy and for "endangering Norwegian lives by causing provocations through the publishing of the drawings of the prophet Muhammed". Selbekk officially apologized that the printing of the pictures hurt religious feelings February 10th 2006 at a press conference at the Norwegian ministry of integration, Bjarne Håkon Hanssen.

Earlier, the newspaper had a "sister" in Sweden, but the Swedish Magazinet no longer exists.